Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

IO:8 SITOU DIKE. SOCCUS.
payable on the importation of corn, see PEN'TE- Meier, AMt. Proc. pp. 43, 423-427; Platne,
COSTE. Proc. uLd Kla/e. vol. ii. p. 266.) [C. R. K.]'rToq, is strictly wheatflour, &Xep1-'a barley-flour, SITTYBAE. [LIBER.]
rvpoei wheat, KcptOal barley, apros wheat bread, Iuaga SI'TULA, dim. SITELLA (aSp/a), was probarley-bread.:WTos, however, is often applied to bably a bucket or pail for drawing and carrying
all kinds of corn, and even in a larger sense to pro- water (Plaut. Amp/l. ii. 2. 30), but was more usuvisions in general. [C. IR. K.] ally applied to the vessel from which lots were
SITOU DIKE (r'Trou aSbIc). The marriage drawn: Sitella, however, was more commonly used
portion (7rpoiZ) being intended as a provision for in this signification. (Plaut. Cas.. ii. 5. 34, 43, ii. 6.
the wife, although it was paid to the husband by 7, 11, Liv. xxv. 3, xli. 18.) It appears that the
her father, brother, or other natural guardian (Kt- vessel was filled with water (as among the Greeks,
p~os), if anything happened to sever the marriage whence the word 6apia), and that the lots (sortes)
contract, the husband or his representative was were made of wood; and as, though increasing iun
bound to repay it; or, if he ftsiled to do so, lhe was size below, it had a narrow neck, only one lo:t
liable to pay interest upon it at the rate of eighteen could come to the top of the water at the same
per cent. per annuma (Er' evE'ia6 oAo7s'roicopopei). time, when it was shaken. (Situzatm zec te lecu
This was the law in case of a divorce (Dernosth. c. cfierto cuiii aqua et sortes, Plaut. Cas. ii. 4. 17; Cic.
Neaer. 1362); and also when, after a contract of in VZerr. ii. 51; Vopisc. Prob. 8.) The vesselused
marriage, and after payment of the marriage por- for drawing lots was also called urn11 or Oarccn as
tion, the intended husband refilsed to perform his well as Sitzula or Sitella. (Cie. in Vettin. 14; Vat.
engagement. (Demosth. c. Aphob. 818.) Upon the Max. vi. 3. ~ 4; Virg. Acen. vi. 431, &c.; Lucia,
death of the husband without children, the wife v. 394, with Schol.; compare-Pers. iii. 48.):tud her money went back to the natural guardian It is important to understand the true meaning
(Isaeus, de Pyrn'. hies. 41, ed. Steph.); but if he of Sitella, since almost all modern writers have
died leaving children,-she had the option of Staying supposed that the name of Sitella or Cista was
with them or going back to her crpros. If she did given indifferently to the ballot-box, into whicrl
the latter, the children (or their guardian, if they those who voted in the comitia and courts of
were under age)'were bound to pay back the por- justice cast their tabellae: but Wrunder (Codex
tion to the icvplos, or eighteen per cent. interest in E:fitenzsis, p. clviii. &c.) has proved, that the
the meantime. (Isaeus, de Pyrri. hiel. 38, 46, ed. opinion of Manutius (de Comiitiis Romaanis, c. 15.
Steph.) And if she married again, her iSpLOSe was p. 527, ed. Graev.) is correct, who maintained that
bound in honoulr to give the same sum to her new the Sitella was the urn, friom which the names of
husband. (Demosth. c. Boeot. de dote, 1010.) Upon the tribes or centuries were drawn olt by lot, so
the transferofa woman from one husband to another, that each might have its proper place. in voting:;
which was not uncommon, the 7rpo7? was trans- and that the Cista was the box illto
ferred with-her. (Demosth. c. Oniet. 866.) A wo- which the tabellae were cast. [CISmTA.]
mnan's fortune was usually secured by a mortgage The form of the Sitella is preserved on
of the husband's property; but whether tlhiswas a coin of the Cassia gens, which is represo or not, her guar&ian, in any of the cases above sented in the annexed cut.
mentioned, might bring an action against the party SOCCUS, dlid. SO'CCULUS, was nearly if not
who unjustly withheld it; Wiicm irpoilcbs, to recover altogether equivalent in meaning to CREPIDn, and
the principal,: Lic o-iL'rov, for the interest. The denoted a slipper or low shoe, which did not fit
interest was called rsTios (alimony or maintenance), closely, and was not fastened by -any tie. (Isid.
because it was the income out of which the woman Orig. xix. 33.) Shoes of this description were
had to be maintained, ati OpeLXdtcsv a1 rpoipal, 71 worn, more especially among the Greeks together
Oito/sI7q 7rpdo'osos Ers Tpoqlv TCraZs yuvait'v. (Har- with the PALLIsua, both by men and by olnoell.
pocr. s. v. iT-oS: Pollux, V-iii. 33; Demosth. c. But those appropriated to the female sex were
Aphob. 839, 854.) The word oi-ror is often used finer and more ornamented (Plin.ll.. ix. 35. s. 56.;
generally for provisions, just as we use the word Soccuzs sslls/iebris, Suet. C/aliq. 52, Vitell. 2), although
bread. So in the law, which required the son of those worn by men were likewise in'ome instances
an /erVIcA7pos to maintain his mother when he richly adorned according to the taste and means of
came of age and took possession of her inheritance, the wearer. (Plaut. BacchI. ii. 3. 98.)
the expression is lby srov e /JepeLi 7. slsrpi.
(Demosth. c. Step/s. 1135.) The allowance for.
rations given to soldiers was called Iirrqpe'leois.
(Bockh, Publ. Econ. of At/lens, p. 272, 2d ed.).
The abr/c s/rTov was tried before the archon in
the Odeum, the same building in which the corn
granaries were kept, which makes it not improbable
that in earlier times the defendant was called upon
to pay the damages in kind, that is, in corn or some
other sort of provisions; though it was soon found
to be more convenient to commute this for a money
payment. This cause, like the sh'c 7rpoZucls, seems
to have belonged to the stUivWro o/scat, as it was presumed that the woman could not wait long fox the
means of her daily subsistence. It was a&Tr,'77ro7,
for the damages were clearly liquidated, being a
mere matter of calculation, when the payment of
the marriage portion was proved. (Suidas, s. v.'nSeoYv;: Pollux, iii. 47, vi. 153. viii. 31, 33;